Artist:

D'Gary & Jihé

D'Gary (Ernest Randrianasolo), was born in 1961 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He grew up in the remote Bara village of Betroka, and it was here that he learned to play the ukulele-like kabosy, the mouth bow and any other instrument he could get his hands on. Using a borrowed guitar, D'Gary came up with 11 guitar tunings and a variety of fingerpicking techniques to convey the music of traditional instruments like the valiha and marovany harps and the kabosy.